| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world,
1570-7628 ;
v. 5
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Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-520) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreigners, females and discourses on Islam -- The setting : relations of ruling in Kebkabiya -- Hajja's week : narrating her life in times of change -- Umm Khalthoum's narrative of her life -- Spaces and silences : comparing biographic narratives -- In the border zone : the predicament of the next generation -- The burden of boundaries : masculinities, femininities and the moral discourse -- Boundaries con/text analysed : gender identities and resistance. |
| Summary |
"One Foot in Heaven conflates two religious perspectives on women propagated by the Islamist government of Sudan since its inception in 1989: as mothers and wives within the walls of their compounds. Central are the biographic narratives of two working women in Kebkabiya, a town in Darfur, each belonging to a different class: low-class market women and highly esteemed female teachers. Based on anthropological research (1990-1995) the author analyses the narratives as part of the multi-layered context in which these were performed - and of which the author also formed part. She shows how these women constructed identities while negotiating the Islamist moral discourse on gender in a period of ethnic conflict, religious transformation and the waging of the first Gulf-war."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muslim women -- Sudan -- Darfur -- Social conditions.
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Muslim women. |
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Sudan -- Darfur. |
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Social conditions. |
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Muslim women -- Government policy -- Sudan -- Darfur.
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Muslim women -- Government policy. |
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Sex role -- Sudan -- Darfur.
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Sex role. |
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Islam and culture -- Sudan -- Darfur.
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Islam and culture. |
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Islamic law -- Sudan -- Darfur.
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Islamic law. |
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Darfur (Sudan) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Willemse, Karin, 1962- One foot in Heaven. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007045314 |
| ISBN |
9789047422983 (electronic book) |
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9047422988 (electronic book) |
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9789004150119 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004150110 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004150119.i-555 |
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